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Black Manicule

Black Manicule: Pointing Elsewhere ♥

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Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 3:15pm to 4:30pm The Black Index presents: "Black Manicule: Pointing Elsewhere" Courtney R. Baker, Professor, Department of English, UC Riverside. RSVP for the event here. The manicule (☚) is a typographic symbol of a hand with a pointing index finger. This talk will discuss art practices and images that point…

The Black Index

The Black Index: Artists in Conversation ♥

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The Black Index: Artists in Conversation Friday, January 15, 2021, from 11 am - 12:30 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7PD3vyf078   Join us for two conversations—artist Lava Thomas with professor Leigh Raiford, and artist Whitfield Lovell with curator LeRonn P. Brooks—about The Black Index, an online exhibition curated by Bridget R. Cooks at the Contemporary Art Center Gallery, the…

Cherise Smith

A Study in Blackness and Black Identity ♥ ★

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"A Study in Blackness and Black Identity" Cherise Smith, Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, UT Austinty Thursday, February 4, 2021 - 3:15pm to 4:30pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvsrtkrvgUQ&feature=youtu.be Scholar Cherise Smith discusses the art of Michael Ray Charles, an artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s for works that engaged American stereotypes of Black Americans. Based on her research and…

The Black Index

The Black Index: Archiving Black Creativity and Resistance ♥ ★

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The Black Index: Archiving Black Creativity and Resistance Friday, February 19, 2021, from 12 pm - 1 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHE9Xm-KWgA Join bibliographer Simone Fujita and curator Krystal Tribbett for a conversation about the role of libraries and archives in indexing Black creative thought and resistance. Fujita and Tribbett discuss the responsibilities of institutions to collect and…